It is Monday, June 2nd, and this is Irish Illustrated Insider.

I'm Tim O'Malley, joined today by Tim Priester of Irish Illustrated and John Bryce of Football Scoop.

And guys, we have some high school football coming up on the campus of Notre Dame, actually, this weekend, Irish Invasion, which I was able to go to.

It was proved invaluable in June of

2023.

Priestre, I believe you were there in 2024.

We will have our recruiting team there in 2025.

That's this weekend.

So we will actually save most of our conversation about Irish invasion for this Thursday.

And of course, a wrap up podcast next Monday.

So I wanted to get back a little bit to our conversation with Marcus Freeman on Thursday.

Priester, you wrote the most important article on that, sustaining success and making it back to the national championship.

Was there anything else you thought we needed to touch on?

Because I actually found something I can chime in with this later from the first

group on the record. We were the second group that I found intriguing. Yeah, let me let me just

comment on the sustainability story that I wrote. You know, the headline kind of declared that

this is now a sustainable playoff program.

It was pointed out to me by one of our questions today from Statman 72,

who I have met, have been with many times on the west coast of the Norden Club of L.A.

And he said he thought that was a little bit premature.

And I said, I get it if you're, you know, I mean, to definitively state that Notre Dame has a program that's sustainable to push for the playoffs. But the reason I made it

more of a declarative statement is because I think that's what, that's where Notre Dame is

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